SELJA RAUDAS
Visual artist
Selja Raudas is a visual artist, illustrator and painter from Helsinki. She graduated as a visual artist from the Lahti Art Institute, studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and completed a master’s degree in art at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. Raudas’ works have been featured in several solo and group exhibitions since 1989.
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NEWS AND CURRENT EVENTS
Doctoral Studies in Arts at the University of Lapland
December 2025
Interview, Gloria Magazine
No. 08 / 2022
Gloria Magazine features Selja Raudas and her artistic practice, tracing the journeys and landscapes behind her work, from Greenland’s glaciers to the desert. The interview explores her creative process, studio life, and the relationship between humanity and nature in her paintings.
Painting is 80% though work.
Night of the Arts 2025 – The popular exhibition returns for a second time!
Agroksenmäen Holvikellari, Helsinki
20.8.2026 at 16.00–22.00
The first Pop Up Art Agros exhibition welcomed a large number of visitors and received enthusiastic feedback. On the Night of the Arts, the atmospheric Agroksenmäen Holvikellari will once again come alive with bold art, vibrant colours, and inspiring encounters.
Mark the date in your calendar, invite your friends, and join us for an unforgettable Night of the Arts surrounded by art.
Picture Books as Enablers of Equality
Lonna-sali, Helsingin Kirjamessut
24.10.2025
Picture-book art can bring important subjects to life in a format that is accessible to both children and the adults reading with them. It creates space for equality and for addressing difficult issues in a safe environment.
Sini Stolt, Lead Specialist for THL’s Barnahus project; author Katri Tapola; and illustrator and visual artist Selja Raudas discuss picture books as a mirror – one that can help us name emotions and confront our own circumstances.
Drawing exhibition at the arctic circle
Gallery Napa, Rovaniemi, Finland
14.12.2024 – 7.1.2025
The exhibition is the first step to establishing a biannual drawing exhibition that is launched in Lapland and tours the Nordic region. It is an initiative by artist, curator Elisa Alaluusua who has been part of the drawing community in London and wants to expand that to her native home in Finnish Lapland.
Habitare 2023
Messukeskus / Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre, Helsinki, Finland
13. – 17.09.2023
Finland’s largest furniture, design and decoration event, Habitare, will take its place in September. You can explore Selja Raudas' artwork in booth 3d29.
Participating in the group exhibition in Ukraine
Central Exhibition Hall of ART Union of Ukraine,
Kiova, Ukraine
Art Library named after Nikolai Bazhan,
Kiova, Ukraine
Marya Zenkovetskaya museum,
Lviv, Ukraine
Exhibition Desert – Ice
Art Center Ahjo, Joensuu, Finland
15.02. - 05.03.2023
The exhibition brings together two contrary environments: desert and ice. Raudas has collected inspiration and knowledge by working on Greenland's glaciers and in deserts in Jordan, Israel and Death Valley, California. Paintings describe all the beauty and cross-purposes that are happening when ecosystem is slowly changing.
